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- A Brush With Greatness
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- “You Know that Wyoming Will Be Your New Home"
- “A Swindling Business"
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- The Grandfather of Reinvention
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- In Manly Fashion
- Closing the Gap
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- Of Mammoths & Monuments
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- The High Point of Mr. Lohnes
- Hannah and Her Sisters
- Wouldn’t It Be Lovelly?
- Reel People
- Initial Response
- Taking Off the Gloves
- Full of Fight
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- Black Sheep
- The Boy Left Behind
- Three of a Kind
- Last Ride of the Fairbury Gang
- Not the Way I Heard It
- Less Dark, But Deep Vermillion
- Into the Wild
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- Seeing Nellie Home
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- In Their Own Words
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- Calling Dr. Kilmer ...
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- After the Fall
- Evil Incarnate
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- The Half-Life of Freida Lovewell
- The French Connection
- Not This Again!
- Farm Livin’ Is the Life for Me...
- Wrong at Both Ends
- Another Face In the Crowd
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- The Third Man
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- Mistakes Were Made
- The Great Divide
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- A Reunion of Historic Proportions
- The Shoddy Genealogist
- Well-Paid Single Women
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- A Perfect World
- Rethinking Charlotte
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- Till Death Do Us Part
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- The Ears Have It
- Have You Stopped Beating Your Wife?
- Getting Schooled
- What About Bob?
- Drive-by
- Paradise Lost
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- “Where Are My Switzers?" (Hamlet, IV, v)
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- A Class Act
- Things Left Unsaid
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- Lies, Damned Lies, and Photoshop
- Getting The Big Picture
- The Connectedness of Things
- With a Name Like That...
- Fair Marquee Value
- Embellishment
- Misremembrance of Things Past
- The Great Spirit Lake
- 300 Leagues from the Sea
- A Tangled Trail of Footnotes
- Walt Disney, Corrupter of Our Youth
- They Played Dead With Their Boots On
- A Winkleplex of Witnesses
- Massacres and Miscellany
- Give Me Land, Lots of Land...
- Christmas at Cedar Lodge
- Grinning Down the Squirrel
- With a Critter on His Head
- Trending In Superior
- Words and Bullets
- You Only Die Twice
- The Way It’s Supposed to Be
- A Case of Small Beer
- Lovewell Goes Ape
- Some Reflections on War
- What’s That You’re Reading?
- A Mouthful of History
- The Illusion of Time
- Slaughterhouse on the Prairie
- Someplace Else
- Creepy Hollow
- Identity Theft
- A Ray of Daylight
- Making Science Yummy
- Finessing the Facts
- Farming the Moon
- And on His Farm He Had a Gun
- A Major Bastard
- I’m Down on My Knees, I’m Begging You Please
- Bits and Pieces
- Numbers Don’t Lie
- Where the Bodies Are Buried
- Collecting the Summer Clothes
- The Two Ingeborgs
- Once More Into the Gulch
- Soulemates
- Dead-Ringer
- Everything We Know Is Wrong
- Guesses About a Chilly Reception
- Voting Women & Other Shenanigans
- Bloody Flags & Painted Horses
- Stuck In the Middle
- This Just In ...
- Rogues’ Gallery
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- History by the Numbers
- Living With the Past
- Mr. Lovewell, I Presume
- Tribute to a Balanced Man
- Proximity
- Two By Two
- Forbidden Sweets, the Next Generation
- Forbidden Sweets
- Written In Blood
- What’s With Whitley?
- Bumping Into Old Friends
- Burying the Tomahawk
- Honored Enemy
- A Murder at Omio
- Towns With Twins
- The Phantom Frenchman
- There’s No Place Like Irving
- A Tangled Web
- Show Me Where It Hurts
- Historical Snooping
- After the Fall
- A Few Reasons to Laugh In the West
- Fort Speculation
- Real Housewives of Carbondale
- Treasures, Free for the Taking
- The Night the Lights Went Out in Lovewell
- A Perfect Gentleman, and Singularly Juicy
- Climate Change
- The To-Do List
- Rocket’s Red Glare
- Casting a Wide Web
- Familiar Honts
- About Time
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- Girls, Uninterrupted
- Delicious Mauritius
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- The Begging Epidemic
- The Case of the Curious Cousin
- Rogers Resurgent
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- The Writing on the Wall
- Inquiring Minds
- A Brush With Madness
- What’s So Funny?
- Yes, We Have No Pianos
- There’s the Signpost Up Ahead
- Born Yesterday
- As You Were
- Star Power
- West by Northwest
- Hatchet Job
- Heads, I Lose
- Stop Me If You’ve Heard This One
- Young Lovell and the Philosopher’s Stone
- Game-Changer
- Loving Well
- Leap of Faith
- Red Letter Year
- Sioux Extinction
- Another Fine Mess
- Ironquill
- The Name Game
- What’s In a (Middle) Name?
- Miracles In a Box
- Hard Facts & Pipe Dreams
- Flashes of Lightning
- The Ukrainian Connection
- The Kansas Influenza
- Cousinometry
- When Cousins Marry
- Great American Deserts & Sleepy Hollows
- The Science Guy, c. 1877
- The Dread of Knowing
- Immortality
- “That Swine, Roosevelt"
- And the Question Is...
- Mother’s Fraud
- Dark Tide Rising
- Gunplay
- A Thousand Words & Climbing
- Lake at the Edge of the World
- Colonial Lolita
- Amply-Endowed Data
- Secret Identities
- The Man Who Was the West … Seriously?
- Don’t Call Out the Cavalry
- Into The Vault
- Stuck In a Rut
- Facts Briefly Stated
- Horse Thieves and Pickpockets
- Ongoing Mysteries, Part 2
- Ongoing Mysteries
- Recent Memories
- First Person Singular
- Automated History
- Surfing the Influx
- Bizarro World
- Concerning the Extra “We"
- Working Without a Net
- Ripping Good Yarns
- Certainty
- Casting Call for a Hero
- How old Cary Grant?
- Best Wishes, Mr. Shakespeare
- Keep It Clean
- Life, Destiny, & Calculating Cats
- Genealogy for a hundred, Alex!
- One Tam Ting After Another
- Soldier of Misfortune
- On the Record
- LOL About the WX
- Evidence and Expectations
- A Trim Reckoning
- The Man Beneath the Feather
- Killing, But With Good Manners
- The Battle of Whiskey Hills
- Little Time-Share on the Prairie
- Messages in a Bottle
- Ratting Out Errata
- Big International Co-Productions
- Dark and Bloody Tales
- “Too Soon"
- Not What It Used to Be
- An Age of Marvels
- Creating New Frontiers
- Looking for Julaney
- The Bad Old Days
- The One and Only
- Busted
- A Trip to Lovewell
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Headstones in White Rock Cemetery
Thomas Lovewell’s daughter Juliana “Julany” Robinson
Julana Scott, the mother of Orel Jane Lovewell and Daniel Davis
Hiram J. Davis, brother of Daniel Davis, & a witness on Thomas Lovewell’s Homestead proof
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